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| Year | Stories |
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| 1876 | 1 |
| 1877 | 4 |
| 1878 | 2 |
| 1880 | 3 |
| 1882 | 1 |
| 1883 | 9 |
| 1884 | 3 |
| 1885 | 8 |
| 1886 | 8 |
| 1887 | 4 |
| 1888 | 3 |
| 1889 | 11 |
| 1891 | 4 |
| 1892 | 2 |
| 1893 | 12 |
| 1894 | 4 |
| 1895 | 5 |
5 stories
- A Gold-Headed Cane for the Man Who Stayed on the Phone in a Burning Mine
Newcastle honored C.C. Anderson, who kept giving orders to trapped miners as the roof burned above him.
- A Miner’s Life Crushed at Newcastle
A young worker is critically injured after being caught between an engine and a coal car at the Newcastle mine.
- A Coal Town Crawls Back From the Fire That Entombed Forty Miners
Six months after the Coal Creek disaster, a reporter follows Newcastle's superintendent a thousand feet underground into the new mine the company is racing to make bigger than the one it lost.
- A Miner's Last Spree: The Newcastle Suicide That Shocked a Coal Town
August Sanders, a veteran Newcastle coal miner, shot himself after a drinking spree and the Coal Creek fire left him broke—an intimate glimpse of life and despair in Washington's coal country.
- The Petrified Frog of Newcastle
A geological curiosity unearthed 700 feet below the surface in a local coal mine.